Service Placements
Each of our interns are placed at a social service organization for the duration of the program. You will find a list of our partners for the summer of 2026 below.
Tyndale St. Georges Community Centre
About the Organisation
Since 1927, Tyndale St. Georges Community Centre has provided empowering educational programming for residents of Little Burgundy from birth through adulthood.
Located in the Southwest of Montreal, five minutes from the downtown core, Little Burgundy is a vibrant and diverse community that, unfortunately, faces challenges related to poverty, racism, and gentrification. There are over 11,000 residents with 37% as recent immigrants, 66% of children and youth living below the poverty line, 46.5% of families are headed by a single parent, 32% of Little Burgundy students drop out before finishing high school, and the neighbourhood has the highest concentration of low-income housing in Quebec.
Tyndale St. Georges envisions the community where there are opportunities for growth and involvement, and access to information and resources; everyone's potential is recognized and achieved; diversity is celebrated, and people feel respected, supported and cared for.
About the Placement
A service placement at Tyndale St. Georges might include:
Integration Aid:
Support neurodivergent participants during summer day camp
Adapt activities to accommodate for needs and capacities
Accompany participants during day camp activities and on external excursions
Liaise with camp director, camp staff, and parents/guardians
Le Pont
About the Organisation
Le Pont is a shelter and services centre for refugee claimants who have recently arrived in Quebec.
We want to offer vulnerable people (single women, single parents, families) temporary housing that is safe, family-friendly, rich in services and exchanges, and that promotes the reception and integration of refugee claimants in Quebec and Canada.
We offer a personalized follow-up of each family's situation and refer them to appropriate community and government organizations. We ensure that our beneficiaries have access to adequate administrative and health services, have applied for their work permits, looked for a place to live, enrolled their children in school; that they are, in general, ready to settle in Quebec.
About the Placement
A service placement at Le Pont might include:
Being a warm and steady presence while accompanying refugee claimants and their families to appointments, and outings, and navigating the various systems in Canada
Representing and supporting the rights of the refugee claimants during outings and appointments when discrimination and mistreatment occurs
Providing administrative support to refugee claimants in translation work, filling out forms, and registering for appointments
Supporting the staff members in delivering workshops and in connecting refugee claimants to additional wrap-around services
Designing and implementing new activities depending on the needs of the refugee claimants and skill-set of the MMI intern(s)
The Ministry to Seafarers
About the Organisation
Approximately 90% of all our material goods are sourced from other countries and transported to Canada via ship. Despite our reliance on seafaring, this aspect of our global supply chain remains largely invisible to the average Canadian. There are over 1.5 million seafarers around the world. The average crew on a merchant ship consists of 20 members who work around the clock in shifts - on average 12 hours per day every day of the week. Seafarers are typically out to sea and away from home for 6-9 months at a time. Many ships lack adequate telephone or Wi-Fi service, meaning that seafarers rely on time in port to contact friends and family.
While the work itself and the dangers inherent to life at sea are both challenging, the greatest challenge faced by seafarers is loneliness. Our work is in the harbour – it is a ministry of presence. Covering the full breadth of our 26 km port, our chaplains, staff, interns and volunteers strive daily to meet the seafarers where they are - whether on ship or shore – to assist them in accessing our city, to connect with our community and to receive spiritual or practical care as desired. We also work to bring visibility to the value and presence of seafarers in our city through engagement with our wider Montreal community.
About the Placement
A service placement at The Ministry to Seafarers might include:
Accompanying chaplains on ship visits to offer a listening ear, provide spiritual counsel, offer a Bible or devotional, or pray with and for the crew
Supporting Seafarers’ Centre in partnership with Mariners' House, where seafarers purchase necessities, enjoy recreational activities, receive the care they need, visit with others and rest.
Providing supplies to seafarers at Seafarers’ Centre such as warm clothing, SIM cards, and other necessities
Supporting transportation services for seafarers from port to city
Planning and coordinating recreational events and games for seafarers
Supporting access to justice and advocacy avenues on behalf of seafarers when they need their voices to be heard or feel they are not being treated fairly.
Saint Columba House
About the Organisation
Established as a United Church outreach ministry in 1926, Saint Columba House supported people struggling through the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Guided by a theology of liberation in the 1980s, Saint Columba House looked to its international partners in Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia and Mexico both for inspiration and to learn about new models of social and political action to promote human rights and support community economic development.
Over the years, Saint Columba House has frequently spoken out on issues of public policy, mobilized communities to defend their rights and has always taken a strong stand to defend and work alongside those who are excluded: the intellectually challenged, the unemployed, children from low-income families, the elderly, those whose lives are affected by physical or mental illness.
About the Placement:
A service placement at the Saint Columba House might include
Café Pronto
· Assist with lunch preparation and service to community
· Accompany community during lunch service to break social isolation
· Support set-up and take-down of lunch services
Meals on Wheels program
· Assist with food preparations
· Deliver food to members registered on Meals on Wheels program.
Réseau d’aide aux travailleuses et travailleurs migrants agricoles du Québec
About the Organisation
RATTMAQ is an organization that advocates for the rights of migrant agricultural and food processing workers in Quebec. Our main goal is to inform them of their rights, obligations, and responsibilities. Additionally, we aim to support them regarding immigration, health, education, and francization. We also aim to promote and defend their interests with the Quebec government as well as the federal government. Furthermore, we educate the public to foster and maintain a positive environment for the workers.
About the Placement:
*Please note, this role requires someone who either has basic Spanish or is willing to learn, and is fluent in either French or English.
A service placement at RATTMAQ might include
Welcoming and greeting migrant workers at the airport
Providing migrant workers with RATTMAQ resources
Documenting and registering migrant workers within the RATTMAQ database
Hosting social gatherings with the welcoming team to provide support and RATTMAQ resources to migrant workers
This role requires basic Spanish and must be fluent in either French or English.
St. Michael’s Mission
About the Organisation:
Since its inception in 1929, St. Michael’s Mission has opened its doors to Montréal’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations in the heart of the city. At the core of our vision is offering those with nowhere else to go a place to start by nurturing a warm, welcoming environment where anyone and everyone can feel at home. Our aim is to give our guests the opportunity to regain their dignity, their autonomy, and a sense of inclusion.
From its roots as a soup kitchen run by the community of St. John the Evangelist under its famous red roof, our organisation has evolved into an independent organisation that emphasises a culture of openness, respect, and tolerance which allows any and all to find refuge with us. While we have a new home these days, the Red Roof moniker is still deeply intertwined with our identity.
It is essential to us that we stay connected to the compassion and dedication that inspired the original Mission into being while adapting ourselves to the realities and needs of an increasingly challenging world. Opening the door of community to those who find themselves on the outside is what we do.
About the Placement:
A service placement at the St. Michael’s Mission might include:
Under the supervision of the cook, help with cooking of recipes and serve meals
Ensure the cleaning of dishes and utensils used throughout the day and during service, as well as all equipment used in the kitchen (pots, pans, ovens, beaters ...)
Participate in the cleaning of the kitchen premises;
Maintain the storage areas, refrigeration room, freezer in good order;
Provide general support to clients and intervention teams
Welcome Hall
About the Organisation:
Established in 1892, Welcome Hall Mission is the largest doorway to help for Montrealers in need. Programs and resources are available to support people experiencing homelessness, families living in precarity, young and single mothers, at-risk youth and the elderly.
About the Placement:
A service placement at the Welcome Hall might include
Support to the Admission Team / Welcome Hall Market (Marché Bon Accueil)
Various administrative tasks in support of client intake activities (phone calls, emails, updating of files, etc), and intake activities (greet and register members for their appointment)
Support Market activities (support the liaison officer; hand out food at window to members, assist with replenishing in Market)
Support delivery service (prepare documents for delivery team and operations team, write daily report on deliveries)
Telephone (make appointments, answer members’ enquiries about our services etc.), Email (answer members’ enquiries e.g. about appointments for the Market or for a delivery, appointments for our events, appointment for opening a file etc.)
All other related tasks (prepare the list for emergency groceries, prepare greeting coupons for Market appointments etc.).
Marché food distribution service
Provide great customer service to Marché clients
Take part in food distribution
Christian Direction
About the Placement:
A service placement at the Christian Direction might include
Urban agriculture and food security
Address issues of food insecurity and food justice which may include hands-on work at multiple urban gardens across the city, the solidarity market, and the kitchen and food transformation workshops
Connect, interact, and build meaningful relationships with residents and clients, who may be accessing the urban gardens and the services at the solidarity market, kitchen and food transformation workshops in an urban ministry context
Accompany young people (12-17 years old) in the maintenance of the urban gardens and the premises (water, collect crops and ensure the health of the garden), and support the personal growth of summer interns through the organizing of workshops
Entr'Ados in Hochelaga -Maisonneuve with Financial Capacity Program (French required)
Support teenage youth through micro-entreprises to increase their financial capabilities (e.g. chocolate making to urban agriculture)
Empower each youth by boosting self-esteem, nurturing independence, and unleashing their creative voice through workshops and hands-on learning
Support the youth in developing valuable skills such as leadership, entrepreneurship and team work
Collaborate with missional communities and act as a space of service for Christians and their neighbours who are wanting to engage with their neighbourhood
Both roles will attend sessions with Urban Labs that helps to shape and engage young adults, namely those in employment or internship with Christian Direction, in their spiritual and missional journey.
About the Organisation:
Motivated by the love of Jesus Christ and his desire to reconcile the world to himself, our mission is to pursue the transformation of people, families and their communities in the cities of Québec and the French-speaking world.
We work to nurture the whole Mission of God in our communities, cities, and province.
God is at work, but what is he doing? He is putting a divided, broken world back together again. His work is the work of reconciling people to himself, reconciling people to one another, and reconciling creation to its creator. As the People of God, we were meant to participate with God in this work of redeeming, reconciling, and renewing all things.
Disarm the Dark
About the Organisation
In February of 2012, Disarm the Dark launched as a small community-focused ministry of a local church. Gathering on Saturday nights in the old church house, we began a seven-week study aimed at deepening our understanding of human trafficking and formulating an answer to the question: As a church, how can we meaningfully support existing anti-trafficking efforts in our city?
In March of 2022, Disarm the Dark became a federally recognized Québec-based non-profit.
Maturing over the years both in step with and (at times) in spite of the anti-trafficking movement as a whole — our work has steadily grown to become a trusted community resource and valued contributing partner to the anti-trafficking efforts in our region.
Our work seeks to disrupt trafficking in persons by establishing Montreal as a city of refuge known for creating clear paths to available resources for anyone seeking to leave a life of exploitation.
About the Placement:
A service placement at Disarm the Dark might include
Conducting a research project related to anti-trafficking and the justice system
Supporting the revamping of anti-trafficking educational curriculum
Offering support to strengthen on-going work with local and Canada-US anti-trafficking taskforces
Hadley Community
About the Organisation:
The Hadley Community is a non-denominational, LGBTQ2+ welcoming organisation that provides housing and support for individuals who struggle with mental illness, homelessness, addiction and trauma.
Their approach and methodology are recognized and respected as a preferred alternative to institutional care: helping those caught within the revolving door syndrome, or worse, the prospect of living on the streets, homeless.
Apart from housing, the Hadley Community also provides the following services, among others: yoga, art classes, interactive workshops, collective kitchens, clothing and hygiene products.
About the Placement:
A service placement at the Hadley Community might include
Support role with either men’s or women’s home:
Accompany residents in daily tasks and provide them with a welcoming presence
Pending on the giftings and skills, the intern may have the opportunity to lead workshops and activities to support residents (e.g. music skills may organize music sessions, cooking skills for collective kitchen workshops, etc.)
Centre for Civic Religious Literacy
About the Organisation
The Centre for Civic Religious Literacy (CCRL) is a secular non-profit that works nationally to promote religious literacy – not reading and writing about religion but the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to better understand religious, spiritual, and secular perspectives and matters from an intersectional lens.
CCRL’s work blends research and education so that religious literacy can be put into practice to help Canadians can live, work, and engage better together. CCRL projects and programs are customized to the needs of each group they work with respect to their context, local needs, and/or sector dynamics.
The team consists of researchers and educators from different religious, spiritual, and secular backgrounds. It welcomes interns who approach topics with curiosity, are willing to listen and explore new opportunities, and can work and communicate well in a team environment.
About the Placement:
A service placement at CCRL the Dark might include
Developing a young adult initiative
Supporting the development or implementation of a communications plan, e.g. co-creating or strengthening social media engagement
Supporting a project for children, parents, and/or educators
Research for potential project opportunities